Erik D Goodwyn

The Neurobiology of the Gods

How Brain Physiology Shapes the Recurrent Imagery of Myth and Dreams

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780415672993
• ISBN-10: 0415672996
• Artikelnr.: 34744758

Autorenporträt

Erik D. Goodwyn is a practicing military psychiatrist for the Air Force in North Dakota, involved in teaching, research and patient care, including that of deployed soldiers. His essays on archetypes, Jungian theory and neuroscience as well as dreams reported by soldiers in combat have appeared in The Journal of Analytical Psychology.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Definitions and Foundations. Symbols, Biology and Depth Psychology.
Foundations. Mental Images, Symbolic Images and "Archetypal" Images. Part
II: Individual Symbols. Human and Animal Spirits. The Anima/Feminine
Symbols. The Animus/Masculine Symbols. The Mother. The Father. The Child.
The Shadow. The Dreamscape. Deep Archetypes ¿ Time, Number, Causation.
Complex Recurrent Symbols and Self Symbols. Part III: Conclusions.
Meaning. Molecules to Mandalas. Appendix: Affective Neuroscience.